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3 days ago
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Rachel Maddow: 'Sad' and 'small' Trump is now a 'laughingstock on the world stage'
After millions took to the streets this past weekend to protest against President Donald Trump's administration, Rachel Maddow said Trump has become a 'sad' and 'small' political figure. On Monday night's show, Maddow referenced the thousands of 'No Kings' protests that took place across the country Saturday and compared them with the apparently sparse showing at Trump's military parade, which occurred in Washington, D.C., on the same day. Maddow said the lack of attendance likely irked crowd-obsessed Trump, who she said was upset that 'nobody came to his $45 million military birthday party.' But, according to Maddow, Trump's diminishing profile isn't just a domestic issue. She said the president's early exit from the G7 summit on Monday made him a 'laughingstock on the world stage.' Maddow said the president was 'so embarrassing himself' at the summit, where, she claimed, he was being treated like 'Putin's intern.' Maddow then ticked through other areas where she argued the president had embarrassed himself in recent weeks, including his back-and-forth on tariffs, which she said has become a 'punchline.' Americans are watching Trump 'fail and flail over and over again,' Maddow said. 'So for a would-be strongman, he's not strong,' Maddow concluded. 'He's a remarkably weak and feckless political figure who is nevertheless trying to overthrow the American form of government while pushing incredibly unpopular policies and executing everything incredibly poorly with a laughingstock full of a terribly, terribly staffed administration and Cabinet.' According to Maddow, that's good news for Trump's opposition: 'Everybody against him is getting stronger and more confident; everybody with him is starting to get a little worried about how long they can stay with him.' 'The opposition against him is big, deep, growing and increasingly unstoppable,' Maddow said. Watch Maddow's full takedown of Trump in the clip above. This article was originally published on
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4 days ago
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Rachel Maddow Sums Up Donald Trump With 2 Triggering Words
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Monday pulled no punches with her two-word critique of President Donald Trump looking like a 'sad' and 'small' political figure right now, amid growing protests and opposition to his administration. Maddow began: 'Nobody came to his $45 million military birthday party. He is a laughingstock on the world stage. He's being treated at the G7 right now like he's Putin's intern. The White House just announced tonight that Trump is coming home early from the G7 meeting tonight, after so embarrassing himself there today.' Trump's signature economic policy of imposing tariffs on imports from foreign countries has also become 'a punchline even among Republicans,' she continued. Maddow then predicted a laughable legacy for the president: 'Someday, 30 years from now, the whole lecture hall full of econ 101 students is gonna laugh out loud when the professor gets out the chalk and writes 'TACO' on the chalkboard and has to explain what the acronym 'TACO' meant in the Trump years for his signature economic policy that he thought would work so well for him, both politically and economically. It is a punchline.' Watch Maddow's full analysis here: 'Atrocious': Eric Trump Slammed For 'Disgusting' Use Of Offensive Slur In Interview 'Good F**king Gawd!': Trump Ripped As Putin's PR Guy After G-7 Whine 'Like A Monty Python Skit': Trump's UK Trade Deal Moment Gets Super Weird In A Hurry
New York Post
10-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Rachel Maddow declares victory against Trump over immigration protests: ‘game over, you lose'
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow took aim at President Donald Trump on Monday and claimed he was 'panicking' over all the protests against him, telling him, 'Game over, big guy. You lose.' 'He has no idea what to do with the sustained and growing and intractable and indomitable protest and opposition of the American people against him. And so he has decided to try to fix it by using the army. Sure. Game over, big guy. You lose. The movement against Trump is unstoppable, now more than ever,' Maddow said on her once-a-week show. Advertisement Maddow argued that Trump's decision to send in the National Guard to help with the anti-ICE demonstrations in California was an example of the president not knowing how to handle a crisis. 'What we are seeing right now in California is a president panicking. We have never before in the history of the US presidency, seen a president who is less popular than this one at this point in his term. And we have never seen a president less politically skilled, less politically equipped than this one to turn that kind of problem around, and so he has panicked, he is trying to hit the eject button,' she said. Maddow argued during her show that someone convinced Trump 'attacking immigrants would work for him politically.' 3 Maddow argued that Trump's decision to send in the National Guard to help with the anti-ICE demonstrations in California was an example of the president not knowing how to handle a crisis. MSNBC Advertisement She insisted that the thousands of organized protests across the country proved that his immigration policy was becoming unpopular, although polling has shown majority support for his deportation program. 'In town after town, in blue states and red states, in school after school, in parish after parish, in city after city. It has run him into a wall, because the American people do not want this kind of cruelty against the immigrants who live among us and are our neighbors and friends, and facing that kind of heart and that kind of resolve, and that kind of nonviolent good cheer… he has no idea what to do,' she said. 3 U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an Invest America Roundtable in the State Dining room, at the White House, in Washington, U.S., June 9, 2025. REUTERS 3 Maddow argued during her show that someone convinced Trump 'attacking immigrants would work for him politically.' MSNBC Advertisement Maddow has returned to only hosting her show once a week on Mondays after working every weekday throughout Trump's first 100 days. Maddow also criticized Trump's National Guard deployment during a conversation with fellow MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell at the start of his show on Monday. 'Even if these protests were 100 times the size that they are, there still wouldn't be an operational reason to bring in active-duty troops or federalized National Guard. I mean, it's not that sort of thing. This is obviously not operationally necessitated, right, in terms of the security of the city,' Maddow said. 'Rachel Maddow is a tragic example of an individual suffering from late-stage TDS. We hope she is able to get the help she needs and that other individuals suffering from this disease see how bad it can get, and seek help before it's too late!' White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital in a statement.
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
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Rachel Maddow Reveals A Sure Sign Trump Is "Absolutely Panicking" Right Now
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Monday argued that President Donald Trump is 'absolutely panicking' over what she described as the 'trenchant and joyful and sustainable opposition' against him. Maddow argued that Trump has 'no freaking idea' how to respond to the protests over his administration's immigration raids — and that his deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles proves it. Trump, in his second term, has 'decided to throw out all the rules,' Maddow said. But instead of appearing bold, she claimed, it's made him 'very boring.' Related: "Honestly Speechless At How Evil This Is": 26 Brutal, Brutal, Brutal Political Tweets Of The Week 'It's like, it's all on the table. We know exactly what he's doing. We know exactly what his intentions are,' she said. 'He's blonde Berlusconi. He's just trying to do the same thing all the other strongmen and would-be dictators do.' Related: AOC's Viral Response About A Potential Presidential Run Has Everyone Watching, And I'm Honestly Living For It The real test now is what citizens allow him to get away with, said Maddow. 'I think the really interesting question is, what the country lets him get away with,' she said. 'And we're seeing a really interesting test of that right now, all over the country, especially this week.' Watch Maddow's commentary below: This article originally appeared on HuffPost. Also in In the News: Republicans Are Calling Tim Walz "Tampon Tim," And The Backlash From Women Is Too Good Not To Share Also in In the News: JD Vance Shared The Most Bizarre Tweet Of Him Serving "Food" As Donald Trump's Housewife Also in In the News: A NSFW Float Depicting Donald Trump's "MAGA" Penis Was Just Paraded Around Germany, And It'
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10-06-2025
- Politics
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Rachel Maddow Finds Hope in Nationwide Immigration Protests: Puts ‘Steel in the Spine' of Trump's Opponents
Rachel Maddow told MSNBC viewers Monday night that she believes the nationwide pushback against President Trump and his administration's immigration raids has revealed 'the most important story of our time.' 'This is an attempted authoritarian overthrow of the United States Constitution and the U.S. government, the attempted imposition of a dictatorial regime. That is clear,' the 'Rachel Maddow Show' host said, before informing viewers that the question is not what Trump will try to do but rather, 'What is this country going to allow him to do?' Maddow argued that Americans will find the answer to that question not in the White House, but in city streets, Congress and federal courts. 'The strength of the movement against [Trump] is what will determine our fate as a country,' the MSNBC anchor said. Turning her attention to the recent, citywide protests in Los Angeles against Trump, ICE and the administration's aggressive immigrant raids, Maddow observed, 'What we are seeing over and over again is that protesting against him works — that he wants to seem strong, but he is not that strong.' You can watch the full 'Rachel Maddow Show' segment in the video below. In reaction to the protests in Los Angeles, Trump overrode the wishes of California Governor Gavin Newsom and deployed the National Guard to California. Trump's decision to immediately resort to a military response has created what Maddow called a 'portrait of weakness.' 'That is what you get when you have a supposed leader, a supposed strongman even, who can't figure out how to get the support of his people,' the MSNBC host explained. 'This is a president who has no other ideas and no skills to get him out of this political pickle that he is in.' Pointing to growing protests throughout the country in cities like Los Angeles, Atlanta and Minneapolis, Maddow said the Trump administration has resorted to 'embarrassing, banana republic shambolic shows of disorganized force.' The news anchor added that there is hope to be found in the passionate responses that Trump's actions have elicited, first from American citizens and second from their Democratic representatives. 'Protest works. One of the ways that it works is that it puts steel in the spine of the political opposition in this country,' Maddow told her MSNBC viewers. 'For elected Democrats, it clarifies things for them. It shows them that the more they themselves push back as elected officials, the more support they will have from their own constituents.' 'It's a sort of virtuous circle,' she concluded. 'Right amid this primal surge of protest, this moral revulsion and rejection of what Trump is doing.' You can watch the full 'Rachel Maddow Show' segment in the video above. The post Rachel Maddow Finds Hope in Nationwide Immigration Protests: Puts 'Steel in the Spine' of Trump's Opponents | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
